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Add, edit or delete Service objects or groups

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This article applies only to On-Premise Appliance, not to our Cloud products.

You can add Service objects and Service object groups for reuse across your Smoothwall Firewall rules, Source NAT & LLB rules or Port forwards rules. 

For example, if the HTTP version of the Smoothwall Appliance Admin UI uses TCP port 81 and the HTTPS version uses TCP port 441, you can create a Service object to group them together.

You can manage Service objects and groups from the Service object manager page or while you’re setting up rules and policies.

  Note

  • You can create child Service object groups within parent Service object groups.
  • Smoothwall provides a large list of built-in Service objects for you to use. You can edit or delete them in the same way as new Service objects you set up.
  • If you have a centrally managed setup, Service objects are replicated to child nodes with ‘Replicated:’ prepended to the name. Service objects already on child nodes are unchanged.

Add a Service object

  1. Go to Network > Settings > Service object manager.
  2. Select Add new service object.
  3. Enter a Name.
  4. To add Selected services:

      Note

    You can remove an object from the list by selecting the X icon.

    • In the Add new service section:
      1. Select the protocol from TCP, UDP, TCP&UDP or Custom IP protocol number.
      2. Enter the number.
      3. Select Add. The service will appear in the Selected services box.
    • Select the Selected services field to previously added services.
  5. (Optional) Enter a Comment. 
  6. Select Save changes.

Edit a Service object

  1. Go to Network > Settings > Service object manager.
  2. Hover over the Service object and select Edit.
  3. Edit the Name, Selected services or Comment as needed.
  4. Select Save changes.

Delete a Service object

To delete a single Service object:

  1. Hover over the name.
  2. Select Delete.
  3. Select Delete again.

To delete multiple Service objects:

  1. Select the checkbox:
    • Next to the Name column to select all objects.
    • Next to each name.
  2. Select the Delete button.